New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday explained the issue of duplicate Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) and assured that the Election Commission of India (ECI) had "taken measures to protect the rights of voters" while resolving such cases.

Addressing a press conference in the national capital, Gyanesh Kumar said, "Duplicate EPICs can happen in two ways. One, that a person who is in West Bengal, who is a different person, has one EPIC number, and another person who is in Haryana has the same EPIC number. When this question came up around March 2025, we discussed it and we solved it across the country. About three lakh such people were found, whose EPIC numbers were the same, so their EPIC nu...